Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos has said that talks aimed at ending hostilities with the country's second largest guerrilla group, the National Liberation Army (ELN), could start as early as next week if the rebel group agrees to hand over hostages.... More
A court in Peru has sentenced the country's former spy chief, Vladimiro Montesinos, to 22 years in jail for the forced disappearance of a professor and two students in 1993.... More
China and Latin America are cooperating in order to make the world a more balanced and peaceful place, a senior Chinese state official said Tuesday in Ecuador.... More
Nearly 600 more U.S. troops will be dispatched to Iraq in coming weeks to reinforce Iraqi government forces to take back the city of Mosul from the extreme Islam State (the IS.... More
The Syrian military intensified its airstrikes on rebel positions in the northern city of Aleppo on Wednesday, a military source said on condition of anonymity.... More
Bolivian President Evo Morales on Tuesday called the TV debate between U.S. presidential candidates "only a show" and said the November elections would not affect Bolivia-U.S. ties.... More
Panama has submitted a formal request with the U.S. Department of State for the extradition of former Panamanian President Ricardo Martinelli to face Panamanian justice, the country’s foreign ministry said Tuesday.... More
Shimon Peres, Israel's former president and its eldest statesman, passed away in a hospital outside Tel Aviv Wednesday morning, two weeks after he suffered a stroke, a spokesperson for the hospital confirmed.... More
Nicaragua's Vice President Moises Omar Halleslevens on Tuesday blasted a proposal in the U.S. Congress that would threaten Managua's access to funding from international lenders.... More
Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos and the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) leader Timoleon Jimenez signed a historic peace deal Monday, ending the country's decades-long armed conflict.... More
More than 11,000 Argentine public sector workers walked off the job Tuesday to demand that President Mauricio Macri reverse his budget-cutting austerity measures, the State-Workers’ Association, or ATE, said. ... More
The Islamic State (IS) group on Tuesday claimed responsibility for two suicide bomb attacks at busy commercial areas in the Iraqi capital of Baghdad that killed a total of 15 people and wounded 59 others, the group said in an on-line statement.... More
Russian Foreign Ministry spokesperson Maria Zakharova has rebuked United Nations' U.S. Ambassador Samantha Power's description of Russian attacks in Syria as “barbarism”, noting that "nothing in modern history is more barbaric than what the US has done in Iraq and Libya.”... More
The European Union (EU) decided to suspend restrictive measures against the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) on Tuesday, after the rebel group signed a peace agreement with the Colombian government.... More
Bolivia's cocaleros (coca leaf growers) will stage a nationwide movement to remove the constitutional hurdle that prevents President Evo Morales from standing for re-election in 2019, the group's leader said on Monday.... More
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